When you think of smartphones the first thing that comes to most people’s minds is the Apple iPhone. It offers the kind of advanced features and above all apps that other phones simply can’t compete with. Well, that’s not necessarily true anymore.
You would be forgiven for not knowing too much about Android phones as up until now their success has been marginalised by a lack of a good enough phone to handle what Android offers. Android is the first mobile operating system provided by Google and it’s beginning to look like it has the potential to give the iPhone a run for its money. With the weight that Google can put behind Android and the range of applications that they have already developed it is the first offering that has the potential to trump iPhone for applications and functionality.
Features offered by Google Goggles allow you to translate foreign text instantly, identify landmarks and even scan barcodes while out shopping to receive information about better prices elsewhere. In addition to this the advanced built in sat-nav feature is good enough to make your tom-tom or garmin totally obsolete. The map information comes from Google maps after all and has street view function built in.
Now, with the release of the HTC Desire the Android platform has a substantial base to build on that could compete with Apple. That and the release of the Nexus One really gives Android the edge. The much anticipated, Google designed Nexus One phone went on sale today in Britain and could well blow Apple out of the water alongside the more powerful HTC variant. They offer complete web, email and third-party application integration that is capable of outranking iPhone from the offset. While it doesn’t currently offer the number of apps that iPhone has it will no doubt catch up in time and will no doubt offer many of them for free.
As the benchmarks for the Android operating system the Nexus and Desire are sure to drive sales for Google through the roof. With the two smart phones now set to go head to head, only time will tell how this clash of titanic proportions pans out.
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